The Verdict: Fantasy tropes aside, GranBlue‘s structure is terrible. Scenes are interminably long, often featuring characters standing around expositioning content we know or are smart enough to infer.
Hopefuly it's just the Curse of the Gifted or he's a massive autist. But he may be right. Except that, from what I can tell based on whatever factual content he provides, the ep.1 faithfully adapts the tutorial from the game. I played through it before losing interest by the 1st save point.